Good day everyone.
Today we enter Q4 of 2017 and with it we bring the re-introduction of our online time requirements for official faction. One of the main purposes of an OF is to represent their chosen NPC faction and the ID that comes with it in the DiscoveryGC server environment. Officialdom, while it comes with plenty of perks for the average player, has always been discussed to be in a need for improving upon.
That is something the Administration team will be working on for the upcoming year.
As for now, however, we are introducing one of the more immediate ways to evaluate the standards of official factions by introducing the new tracker.
Bear in mind that during the time of writing, the publicly available activity page is somewhat unstable. Worry not - the tracker itself is and has been written from the ground up in order to be much more reliable than its predecessor.
First we will start off with the essential information.
*Monthly activity checks have been replaced with a quarterly activity check. It means that as an official faction, you must obtain a bare minimum of 3 ingame days of activity in order to remain official.
*Unofficial groups that have been added to the tracker (excluding the OPEN TAG) will need to keep themselves above 1 day, respectively.
*If an official faction does not meet these requirements, they will receive a warning. If their activity does not improve over the course of the next quarter-year, they will be removed. If their activity does not improve over the course of the next quarter-year 2 Quarterly Checks (Amended Jan 2018), they will be removed.
*If an unofficial faction does not meet these requirements, they are removed from the tracker. If this happens during their officialdom request, the request is automatically denied.
*Faction leaders are encouraged to keep track of their ingame presence on a monthly basis and, if needed, voice their issues under the Faction Leaders Section.
Furthermore, we have come to a conclusion that since the administration team informed official faction leaders of the upcoming renewal of the tracker ahead of time, and that the lack of a tracker should be no excuse for official groups to show unforgivably little online time, the following groups are given a warning due to having displayed an online presence of under 24 hours over the course of the last two months.
The following groups have displayed an online presence under one hour and will be removed from the tracker:
Blood Dragons 41m 38s
Sirius Rogues (Unofficial) 0
Commune Link
VWA - Your faction's status has been a topic of discussion. Since there is no forum activity related to your group since the transfer of leadership, we have decided to uphold the initial leader's post regarding the group's disbandment.
For now there are no further alterations to this system, however the talks regarding how many official factions can a player lead are still ongoing, though unlikely, even if agreed upon, to be put in this year. We will keep you informed.
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